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Bruce Sterling wonders how to implement throttle control on his party.

Now there’s the architectural solution. Maybe it’s a technical problem, ok? I can engineer the kegs because the kegs are the locus of the party organization. So let’s just say, maybe my kegs are too low-tech and what I need is a keg firewall. It’s measuring the amount of fluid that is coming out of the kegs and is the party is getting too boisterous, they just start busting out air. “Hey man, the keg’s not working! The keg’s not working at Sterling’s house. Aw man, the keg’s are dry.” and then they leave and then the kegs just spring back up. They’re just sitting there, watching network traffic, and if it gets too heavy, the kegs kick out. Or you could have keg mirror sites at someone else’s party and it just pops up on the keg that says “Hey, you’re being slashdotted here! Why don’t you go to Fourth Street? There are lots of kegs there!” Have appealing little pictures of the kegs moving around on them. Maybe webcam photos. “Oh, this party is so much fun over here! Why don’t you go to that party?”

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